3 ms·
> I'm an average person (with 17 years of professional programming career behind me). I sense a contradiction in this statement...
by arbuge 8y ago
> I'm an average person (with 17 years of professional programming career behind me).
I sense a contradiction in this statement...
- dmitriid 8y agoYou only sense the contradiction because you share a common HN delusion: that you are above average unique non-normal tech bro über man. This delusion is what stops such people from understanding why Slack/Viber/WhatsApp/iMessage/WeChat etc. won and XMPP and IRC lost.
- coatmatter 8y agoWhat perplexes me is that there are now even more competing messaging services than ever before. This suggests to me that none have won.
- dmitriid 8y agoIndeed. And in the world of competing messaging services the world prefers anything but XMPP or IRC. This suggests to me that they lost.